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You don’t have to be born in Lithuania to call yourself a Litvak. There were many years in which Lithuania’s borders kept changing, so that many Jews born in any of Lithuania’s neighboring countries or in any of the countries that had ruled or occupied …

With Sarah Cammarata and Daniel Lippman
CAMPBELL SOUP LOBBYIST DEREGISTERS: Kelly Johnston, the Campbell Soup Company lobbyist who was harshly criticized this week for tweeting a conspiracy theory that George Soros’ Open Society Foundation was behind the …

Russian State Duma lawmakers on Tuesday passed new legislation that would expand the federal government's ability to ban foreign nongovernmental organizations accused of meddling in Russian elections.
The legislation builds on a series of Russian laws …

May, 15 2018
Author: Thema Newsroom
The NGO released a report on how EU countries take measures against Russian propaganda
An NGO called “European Values” based out of the Czech Republic claims Greece and Cyprus are the least effective when concerning …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front, is in the foreground on as President Trump pats the shoulder of French President Emmanuel Macron on the first day of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, on July 7, 2017. (Markus Schreiber/AP) France has had its …

Russia’s government has added the German Marshall Fund of the United States to its list of foreign whose activities are deemed “undesirable” in the country.
"The Russian Justice Ministry has added the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) to …

The Russian government has blacklisted two European organizations involved in election monitoring, days ahead of the March 18 presidential vote.
On March 13, the Justice Ministry listed Germany's European Platform for Democratic Elections and Lithuania …

Women’s sexual and reproductive rights are “under threat”, the Council of Europe has warned.
In a report published on on Tuesday (5 December), the institution constituted of 47 European states and tasked with upholding human rights said that “in recent …

Picking up the anti-Soros torch from Hungarian leader Viktor
Orban, UK politician Nigel Farage is seeking to investigate fellow EU
MEPs who support the controversial vision of the wealthy financier. But
are Orban and Farage’s fears valid?
UK
politician …

The Paradise Papers leak of 13.4-million documents from more than 19 "secrecy jurisdictions" across the world will put pressure on authorities to tighten up tax avoidance laws.
The Paradise Papers were obtained by German newspaper
Süddeutsche …

A number of high profile South Africans and local institutions are flagged in the biggest tax leak since the Panama Papers, which is set to cause ripples amongst many who have stashed their wealth in offshore tax havens.
Most of the 13.4-million documents …

Intriguingly, the leaked Appleby files show how Queen Elizabeth invested millions of dollars in medical and consumer loan companies. This is the first time details of the English queen’s private offshore investments have emerged.
The records show that as …

Russian lawmakers have advanced a bill letting federal prosecutors extrajudicially ban websites associated with organizations deemed “undesirable,” a label currently applied to a handful of American NGOs linked to the likes of former President Ronald …

Business
magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in
London
Thomson
Reuters
BUCHAREST, Romania — Last winter, in the middle of
anti-corruption demonstrations, a television broadcaster accused
George Soros — the Hungarian-born, Jewish- …

October 10, 2017
BUCHAREST, Romania — Last winter, in the middle of anti-corruption demonstrations, a television broadcaster accused George Soros — the Hungarian-born, Jewish-American billionaire philanthropist — of paying dogs to protest.
The protests in …

President Ilham Aliyev at the European Games in 2015. Creative Commons.
In a series of new investigations, a network of investigative journalists have discovered the government of Azerbaijan was the driving force behind a $2.9 billion secret slush fund …

LONDON — The allegation of electoral fraud in Venezuela was brought by an electronic voting company headquartered in England that counts the Latin American country as one of its oldest clients and promotes its technology as a way to ensure legitimate …

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Luanda, ANGOLA, December 4 - Angolan head of State João Lourenço is receiving Tuesday in Luanda the representatives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and civil society associations to discuss current issues.
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The president will receive in …

04/14/2014 (press release: media1press)
HM king Mohammed VI received this Saturday at the Royal Palace in Tetouan, the Chairman of “Open Society Foundations”, Georges Soros.
Soros is presently visiting Morocco to take part in a meeting of the board …

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - February 16, 2017) - In the news release, "Immigrant Justice Corps Announces 2017 Justice Fellows," issued earlier today by Immigrant Justice Corps, we are advised by the organization that in the list of Fellows, …

The two-day workshop aimed at Stakeholders working to confront the challenge of stemming illicit financial flows (IFFs) from Africa ended in Nairobi Tuesday, with participants agreeing to add impetus to the fight to stop the bleeding that is costing the …

A two-day workshop aimed at Stakeholders working to confront the challenge of stemming illicit financial flows (IFFs) from Africa opened in Nairobi Monday, with the Economic Commission for Africa's Head of Special Initiatives in the Office of the …

In its continuing efforts to stem illicit financial flows from Africa, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its partners will next week host a validation workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, to, among other things, establish a clear work plan and …

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TGTE's Elections Commission conducted Internationally Supervised Elections around the world to elect new Members of Parliament to its 3rd Parliament.
PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, May 25, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ --
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Patients who received an experimental heart valve without their consent according to an article published Thursday in The Daily Northwestern.
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, May 24, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Patients who received …

In 2012, I visited the federal supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado and spoke with men living in solitary confinement. I listened closely to their stories of anguish, but I could not understand how they survived it. They told me of the horror of being …

It has been a horrific week for transgender and non-binary people. Muhlaysia Booker, Claire Legato, and Michelle Simone are Black trans women who have been murdered in the past week. At least five Black trans women have been killed so far in 2019. On …

President Trump really, really doesn’t like the fact that congressional committees are investigating him. On Wednesday, he was so mad that he stormed out of a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about critically needed infrastructure legislation after …

A two-day national advocacy forum on women, peace and security has concluded in Juba, with discussions having focused on ways to influence and achieve women’s effective participation in governance and the country’s peace process.
“It’s very crucial for us …

Last week, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation banning nearly all abortions. The law, which threatens doctors with up to 99 years in prison for performing abortions, is the anti-abortion opposition’s true agenda on display: ban abortion, jail …

Amidst a surge in new cases, the epidemic has claimed more than 1,200 lives and threatens to spread to other provinces in the east, as well as neighbouring countries. A third of those infected have been children; a higher proportion than during previous …

In partnership with Société Générale, the official bank of Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com), the Africa Women's Sevens will take place on 12nd and 13th October 2019 in Jemmel in Tunisia and will bring together twelve of the best African teams. Each …

Zaynab stands next to the remnants of her home she used to share with her six children before it was destroyed by early season rainstorms that brought strong winds and rain to north-east Nigeria.
“I was in the market in the afternoon when the storm came …

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The UK government is providing £8 million for humanitarian support to Somalis affected by the current drought. The funds will go towards providing food security, nutrition, clean water, basic health services and livestock vaccination; this …

IAOVC highlights facts about the Italian American experience in America with “bite-sized” video feature on events in US history starting with Memorial Day.
BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY, USA, May 23, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The Italian American ONE …

Across the country, people are talking about abortion as legislatures in the South and Midwest mount a full-scale attack on our reproductive freedom. Naturally, people are stressed and angry. I am too. I’ve been fighting to protect abortion access for more …

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With the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo now in its tenth month and the number of new cases increasing in recent weeks, the United Nations announced today measures to strengthen its response and end the outbreak.
The …

Following the success of its 7th edition in Paris, Digital Woman’s Day (JFD, for Journée de la Femme Digitale) (www.LaJourneedelaFemmeDigitale.com) is unveiling the highlights of its first event in Africa, on the theme of ‘Women: World Changers’ which will …

The North/South Consonance Ensemble under the direction of Max Lifchitz perform works by composers from Brazil, Mexico and from throughout the US.
NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, May 22, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- North/South Consonance, Inc. …

EDINBURG, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, May 22, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- It’s been more than 150 years since the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States yet the staggering fact is that today racism remains the leading cause of division …

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery claims to be a big believer in data. As reported last year, Montgomery has blocked effective, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals from becoming law in part by criticizing them as having “no data to support …

The Uganda Rugby Union welcomes the World Rugby campaign dubbed “Women in Rugby Global Marketing Campaign” that was launched on Tuesday 21st May, 2019. at its headquarters in Dublin.
“With a newly elected executive at Uganda Rugby – a renewed strategy is …